12 Pickups Have the Best Shot at 250,000 Miles, and the F-150 Isn’t One of Them
iSeeCars puts a Ram 3500's odds of hitting 250,000 miles at 31.9% and a Ford F-150's at 5.2%, leaving it outside the 12 above the 11.1% truck average.
Those odds come from a truck breakdown iSeeCars published Nov. 5 , built on odometer readings from more than 41 million pickups. It expands on the company's September study , which covered over 395 million vehicles.
The truck average was 13% in last year's study, Work Truck notes , and 25.9% in 2023.
The 12 Trucks Above the Average
Nine of these are heavy-duty. Only the Tundra, Tacoma and Ridgeline aren't.
| Rank |
Truck |
Chance of reaching 250,000 miles |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Ram 3500 |
31.9% |
| 2 |
Toyota Tundra |
28.2% |
| 3 |
GMC Sierra 3500HD |
26.2% |
| 4 |
Toyota Tacoma |
25.0% |
| 5 |
GMC Sierra 2500HD |
17.2% |
| 6 |
Ford F-350 Super Duty |
15.1% |
| 7 |
Ford F-450 Super Duty |
14.9% |
| 8 |
Ram 2500 |
14.3% |
| 9 |
Chevrolet Silverado 2500HD |
14.1% |
| 10 |
Honda Ridgeline |
13.7% |
| 11 |
Ford F-250 Super Duty |
13.4% |
| 12 |
Chevrolet Silverado 3500HD |
11.7% |
"Truck owners often subject their vehicles to highly demanding use cases while expecting them to perform without complaint," said iSeeCars executive analyst Karl Brauer. "These top-ranked trucks reflect a level of quality and durability engineered to meet those demands."
Toyota's 26.7% brand score is nearly double second-place Honda's 13.7%. Ram sits at 7.5% and Ford at 7.2%, with only Nissan lower at 6.3%.
A 2021–23 Ford F-150 SuperCab. Image Credit: Bull-Doser via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)
Where the Best-Sellers Landed
The F-Series leads 2026 pickup sales at 561,508 through September, with the Silverado on 413,383 and Ram on 325,348, CarPro's tally shows . Those totals include heavy-duty versions.
On their own, the light-duty models score far lower:
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Chevrolet Silverado 1500:9.8%
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Ford F-150:5.2%
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Ram 1500:4.2%
The F-150's number is under half the truck average, and slightly below the 5.4% iSeeCars gives the average vehicle overall. The Ram 1500's is the lowest of all 21 pickups in the rankings, a strange result for a brand whose 3500 leads them. The 3500 has more than seven times the odds of the 1500.
The F-150's 13,500-pound maximum towing rating is still the best among the six full-size models iSeeCars ranked, and the Ram 1500's 2,360-pound maximum payload tops that group.
What These Odds Can't Tell You
The percentages are estimates, not counts of trucks that made it. iSeeCars takes the average odometer reading for each model at each age, then runs those averages through its own model to work out the odds of survival.
A method like that could favor trucks that get worked hard and pile on miles young. The Sierra 3500HD and Silverado 3500HD share a platform and both list 36,000 pounds of maximum towing, yet GMC's scores 26.2% and Chevy's 11.7%.
The company also gives one figure per nameplate, with no split by generation. Toyota's engine recalls cover 2022–2024 Tundras , and the 28.2% score doesn't say which years earned it.
